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2013-10-06 , 11:18
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Originally Posted by tissot View Post
By what exactly?
I remember reading about it last year. Investors were rightly so pushing MS to do something with that cash.


I don't believe the cash reserves were directly linked to Nokia buy. The pile has been being build for years for tax reasons.
I suppose you overlooked the part where they're offshore tax havens (ie. loophole style tax avoidance).

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
After all of the uproar over what Apple was doing in regards to their cash stash they keep overseas; hell yes. Because not one soul said anything about this pertaining Microsoft but kept pointing out Apple only. I'm willing to believe this is more of the norm than not.

Oh well... Nokia got "bought". They still have 60+ Billion - let's see who's next.
Do you think maybe Microsoft got a nice quiet pass on tax avoidance for giving the gov't a nice slick easy back-door way to monitor customers?
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